Balthasar Michalka

Balthasar Michalka (1748-) was the Kaiser of Austria from 1799 to 1803.

Biography
Michalka was born in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, to a Hungarian family. He became a member of politics as an industrial revolutionary and tactician, advocating increases in the economy, army, and was a patron of the navy. After the Austrian Revolution that put Karl Nitschmann in power in 1791, he became a key member of the opposition and became Kaiser after Nitschmann's second term ended in 1799.